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Egyptian guards close port to protest kidnappings of security officers
Police in the Egyptian border port of Rafah, on the Sinai peninsula, said they closed the port's gates Friday to protest the abduction of seven officers. Soldiers and employees at the border said they will sit in front of the closed entry and exit gates until their kidnapped colleagues are freed, Ahram Online reported Friday. Seven Egyptian security personnel were kidnapped Thursday. They ...
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Several Thousand Rally in Egypt
Cairo, 17 May (Prensa Latina) Thousands of protesters converged on Cairo''s Tahrir Square on Friday to join a planned rally in solidarity with the recently-launched "Rebel" campaign, which aims at "withdrawing confidence" from Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and bringing about early presidential elections. Hundreds of marchers coming from Sayyeda Zeinab Mosque and ...
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Egyptian Solidarity Wants Removal of Religious Defamation Laws From Countrys Constitution
Egyptian Solidarity has called for the removal of religious defamation laws from the Egyptian penal code and constitution, explaining that such laws contradict the principles of human ...
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Gaza business smuggles in KFC from Egypt
Gaza across the Egyptian border. Mohammed al-Madani, financial manager of al-Yamama company, said the business idea came when employees contacted a friend who works at the KFC in al-Arish, Egypt, with some orders and they were able to smuggle the food through a tunnel within three hours, The Christian Science Monitor reported Friday. "Then we asked ourselves, 'Why don't we ...
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Egypts Morsi seeks EU aid on Europe trip
) - President Mohamed Morsi is set to seek increased aid and investment from Europe for Egypt's beleaguered economy when he visits Brussels on Thursday on his first trip to Europe since his election in June. The Islamist president "wishes to talk about the support of the European Union during this transition period" for Egypt, his spokesman Yassir Ali said. In the Belgian ...
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Hundreds march in opposition to Egypts Morsi
Protesters frustrated with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said three marches took place Friday to press for early elections. Opposition groups have expressed frustration with Morsi, who marks his first year in office next month. He's the first democratically elected president in Egyptian history. Criticism against his administration ranges from his oversight of a weak economy to the ...
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Ecowas Ministers Agree On Implementation Action Plan On Proposed Lagos-Abidjan Highway
Abuja - Nigeria - ECOWAS Ministers of Works/Road Infrastructure, Transport, Finance and Justice from Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo, ended their one-day meeting of Monday, 22nd April 2013 in Abuja with an agreement on an implementation plan for the construction of a proposed highway linking Abidjan to Lagos. A supra-national agency to be set up will manage the project ...
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Commissioner Defends Ecowas Role in Mali Tasks Human Rights Campaigners
Abuja - Nigeria - ECOWAS Commissioner for Human Development and Gender, Dr. Adrienne Diop, has affirmed ECOWAS' total involvement in the crisis in Mali and attributed the current global interest in the country to the untiring efforts of West African leaders. The Commissioner was addressing the opening of a two-day workshop and annual general assembly of the Network of National Human Rights ...
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Recommendations for Enhancing the Promotion of Girls Education
Banjul - the Gambia - The ECOWAS expert's meeting on the education of girls and other vulnerable groups ended on Friday 19 April 2013 in Banjul with some important recommendations, whose implementation would go a long way to enhancing the promotion of the education of these marginalized social groups. In the first set of recommendations, the experts urged ECOWAS to support and assist the ...
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Egyptian Palestinian Presidents Condemn Jewish Attacks in Jerusalem
Ramallah, May 17 (Prensa Latina) The Egyptian and Palestinian Presidents Mohamed Morsi and Mahmoud Abbas, respectively, condemned the desecration of sacred Islamic sites by Jewish extremists in Jerusalem, through an official communique released here today. According to the communique, Morsi and his host urged the Israeli government to immediately stop those violations of international law, ...
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In ancient Egypt summer was baby-making season
The peak period for baby-making sex in ancient Egypt was in July and August, when the weather was at its hottest.Researchers made this discovery at a cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt whose burials date back around 1,800 years. The oasis is located about 450 miles (720 kilometers) southwest of Cairo. The people buried in the cemetery lived in the ancient town of Kellis, with a population of ...
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Egypt Fears of spurious charges in trial of another opposition activist
There are credible fears that the charges against a well-known opposition activist in Alexandria may be spurious and in retaliation for his activism, Amnesty International said as his appeal hearing is due to resume. On 12 March, the activist Hassan Mostafa was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison for insulting and attacking a public prosecutor in Alexandria - accusations he vehemently ...
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KFC smuggled to Gaza from Egypt via tunnels– video
A delivery company in Gaza is transporting Kentucky Fried Chicken from Egypt through underground tunnels for residents. Families order their meals a day in advance, and they are transported to the blockaded region through the Hamas-run tunnel system. Delivery company Alyamama reportedly charges around $35 (23) for a family ...
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Actor dressed as woman feels Egypts sexual harassment
As part of a documentary TV series, a young male actor took to the streets of downtown Cairo dressed as a woman and experienced sexual harassment ...
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Secret Life of Egyptian Pigs
Pigs once played an important economic role for Cairo's Coptic Christians and helped keep the Egyptian capital clean. Now, after a controversial culling, they are making a ...
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Nasr for Civil Works Q113 profits hit LE 6.5 m
) reported consolidated financial results posting a net profits of LE 6,574,503 for the period from 01/01/2013 till 31/03/2013. Noting that, it posted net profits of LE 4,467,527 for the comparable ...
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Calm Prevails in Tahrir Square Before Demonstration
A state of calm prevailed on Friday morning in Cairo's Tahrir Square before a planned million-man demonstration which several revolutionary parties and forces have called for. According to those parties and forces, participants in today's demonstration demand holding early presidential elections, releasing all detainees, drafting a new constitution, and avenging the martyrs. Some ...
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Palestinian President in Egypt With Heavy Agenda
Cairo, May 16 (Prensa Latina) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will pursue a heavy agenda of vital issues in this capital, one of which is a meeting today with his Egyptian counterpart, Mohamed Morsi. Abbas arrived in Cairo last night, just 48 hours after delegations from his Al Fatah organization and Hamas, the Islamist entity that rules the Gaza Strip, agreed to form a transitional ...
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Egypt closes border after kidnappings
Cairo - Egyptian police closed the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on Friday in protest at the kidnapping of colleagues in the Sinai peninsula, a security source and witnesses ...
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Egypt police shut Rafah crossing to protest abductions
Gaza on Friday in protest at the kidnapping of colleagues in the Sinai peninsula, a security source and witnesses said.Three policemen and four soldiers were abducted on Thursday by armed men who are demanding the release of a group of prisoners held at a police station in the North Sinai town of El-Arish, official media reported.The captured policemen worked at the Rafah border terminal, a ...
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Orascom Telecom Q113 loss hits LE 1.3 bln
) reported consolidated financial results posting a net loss of LE 1,364 billion for the period from 01/01/2013 till 31/03/2013. Noting that, it posted net profits of LE 726 million for the comparable ...
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Court Quashes Sentence for Mubarak-Era Tycoon
Cairo - An Egyptian court quashed Sunday the sentence of a 7-year prison term and a large fine for a business tycoon over money laundering charges and ordered his retrial, official news agency MENA reported. The Court of Cassation canceled the jail term and the fine of over 2.7 billion U.S. dollars against Ahmed Ezz, a well-known steel tycoon and former ruling party's leading member at the ...
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Egypts unemployment rate reaches 13.2 in Q1 2013
- Egypt's jobless rate climbed 0.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the last quarter of 2012, reaching 13.2 percent of the country's total labour force, according to state-run statistics body CAPMAS.CAPMAS's quarterly report, released on Wednesday, attributed the increase in the unemployment rate to the stricken economy, which has seen frequent hits since the 2011 ...
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Cemetery Reveals Baby-Making Season in Ancient Egypt
Egypt whose burials date back around 1,800 years. The oasis is located about 450 miles (720 kilometers) southwest of Cairo. The people buried in the cemetery lived in the ancient town of Kellis, with a population of at least several thousand. These people lived at a time when the Roman Empire controlled Egypt, ...
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Egyptian police close Gaza border in protest demanding release of kidnapped colleagues
RAFAH, Egypt - An Egyptian security official says policemen at the country's main crossing point into the Gaza Strip have closed the border on their own initiative to protest the abduction of their colleagues. The official said Friday that the guards will keep the border closed until four of their colleagues, who were abducted in the Sinai peninsula Thursday with three others, are freed. ...
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Egypt's oil industry is growing rapidly
Egypt has, in recent years, made immense gains in terms of economic performance. The country has long been the economic powerhouse of North Africa and Africa in general (second only to South Africa and Nigeria) and has taken great steps to reverse the highly-centralized economy inherited from President Gamel Abdel Nasser.
The oil and gas sector has long been one of the major strengths in the Egyptian economy, along with other natural resources such as minerals, gold and natural gas. Read more
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